TDr. Linda Maepa (they/she; born at 325ppm)
@lmaepa.blacksky.app
Sangoma, geobiologist, entrepreneur, inventor, investor, farmer (zone 10a), beader
Bapedi 🐊 & emaSwati 🙏🏾📿 Thokoza 👏🏾👏🏾
Non-Black or Non-Indigenous, don't follow & see me here instead: @gogopebetse.org
Healing & beadwork web: gogopebetse.org #pinksky
Bapedi 🐊 & emaSwati 🙏🏾📿 Thokoza 👏🏾👏🏾
Non-Black or Non-Indigenous, don't follow & see me here instead: @gogopebetse.org
Healing & beadwork web: gogopebetse.org #pinksky
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Hey, I'm trying to do a thing here. Introducing the Black Gardeners and Farmers starter pack. I *know* there are more of us. Let me know so I can add you!
Includes people who are looking to connect over gardening 🤝🏾🌱
go.bsky.app/VJwu7qc
Includes people who are looking to connect over gardening 🤝🏾🌱
go.bsky.app/VJwu7qc
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Yes, I’m still awake. One of the online girlie pops was talking about this lowkey being a race to snag CNN before the mid terms and that is the theory I’m going with.
Paramount is making a hostile bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery after losing a major bidding battle to Netflix.
They are offering an all-cash deal worth $108 BILLION.
They are offering an all-cash deal worth $108 BILLION.
December 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Yes, I’m still awake. One of the online girlie pops was talking about this lowkey being a race to snag CNN before the mid terms and that is the theory I’m going with.
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One of my fundamental beliefs is that I should not have to talk to people who have been cruel to me. You might be surprised to learn how often -- and vociferously -- people disagree with me about that.
December 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
One of my fundamental beliefs is that I should not have to talk to people who have been cruel to me. You might be surprised to learn how often -- and vociferously -- people disagree with me about that.
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Hey y’all. My sister & I are facing an urgent housing crisis. Because of a major snowstorm, we haven’t been able to work, & now we can’t cover the full cost of our temporary housing for tomorrow. We’re doing everything we can to stay safe, warm, & stable, but we need help to get through this moment.
December 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Hey y’all. My sister & I are facing an urgent housing crisis. Because of a major snowstorm, we haven’t been able to work, & now we can’t cover the full cost of our temporary housing for tomorrow. We’re doing everything we can to stay safe, warm, & stable, but we need help to get through this moment.
I saw this post and hared off to watch it too and...
So much yelling and so many memories.
Man, we've lived through some times.
So much yelling and so many memories.
Man, we've lived through some times.
Watching Blackberry and I didn't know it was a Canadian thing trakt.tv/movies/black...
BlackBerry
Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade...
trakt.tv
December 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I saw this post and hared off to watch it too and...
So much yelling and so many memories.
Man, we've lived through some times.
So much yelling and so many memories.
Man, we've lived through some times.
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Been saying for years that reviving the freedom schools at scale is a viable strategy.
December 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Been saying for years that reviving the freedom schools at scale is a viable strategy.
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Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis is still on the Bookshop Bestseller List! ❤️
Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
Letters to Activists in Crisis
bookshop.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis is still on the Bookshop Bestseller List! ❤️
A politician that wants my vote needs to commit to this.
Please do the same so we can have this 🙏🏾✨️
Requesting reposts and quotes to spread the word.
Please do the same so we can have this 🙏🏾✨️
Requesting reposts and quotes to spread the word.
Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
December 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A politician that wants my vote needs to commit to this.
Please do the same so we can have this 🙏🏾✨️
Requesting reposts and quotes to spread the word.
Please do the same so we can have this 🙏🏾✨️
Requesting reposts and quotes to spread the word.
My new best friend, tree-ripened Granny Smith apples. Picked them at MIL's house last weekend.
They're sweet with charming hints of tartness and have small red spotting on the skin.
Let them be a winter apple, you won't regret! Flavor as complex as wine & criollo chocolate ✨️
I am transported 🙌🏾🌱
They're sweet with charming hints of tartness and have small red spotting on the skin.
Let them be a winter apple, you won't regret! Flavor as complex as wine & criollo chocolate ✨️
I am transported 🙌🏾🌱
December 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
My new best friend, tree-ripened Granny Smith apples. Picked them at MIL's house last weekend.
They're sweet with charming hints of tartness and have small red spotting on the skin.
Let them be a winter apple, you won't regret! Flavor as complex as wine & criollo chocolate ✨️
I am transported 🙌🏾🌱
They're sweet with charming hints of tartness and have small red spotting on the skin.
Let them be a winter apple, you won't regret! Flavor as complex as wine & criollo chocolate ✨️
I am transported 🙌🏾🌱
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Black men please get checked
In the past two weeks I have heard stories about 1 man passing at 31 from a heart attack and another man passing at 34 from a stroke
I personally knew one man and my dad knew the other one
This is not normal ! Please do not play about your health.
In the past two weeks I have heard stories about 1 man passing at 31 from a heart attack and another man passing at 34 from a stroke
I personally knew one man and my dad knew the other one
This is not normal ! Please do not play about your health.
December 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Black men please get checked
In the past two weeks I have heard stories about 1 man passing at 31 from a heart attack and another man passing at 34 from a stroke
I personally knew one man and my dad knew the other one
This is not normal ! Please do not play about your health.
In the past two weeks I have heard stories about 1 man passing at 31 from a heart attack and another man passing at 34 from a stroke
I personally knew one man and my dad knew the other one
This is not normal ! Please do not play about your health.
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Learn about the Black Zine Fair & please help us to fund it: gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTYJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTYJ...
Black Zine Fair
YouTube video by Sojourners for Justice Press
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Learn about the Black Zine Fair & please help us to fund it: gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTYJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTYJ...
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Don’t forget about the #FindThatLizard Scholarship!! Please share
#science #scholarship #funding #herps #HERpers #lizards #snakes #frogs #salamanders #game #challenge #education
#science #scholarship #funding #herps #HERpers #lizards #snakes #frogs #salamanders #game #challenge #education
November 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Don’t forget about the #FindThatLizard Scholarship!! Please share
#science #scholarship #funding #herps #HERpers #lizards #snakes #frogs #salamanders #game #challenge #education
#science #scholarship #funding #herps #HERpers #lizards #snakes #frogs #salamanders #game #challenge #education
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I am immediately IMMEDIATELY baking sweet braided bread. Takes 4 eggs per batch. Cardamon or lemon zest. Maybe I'll make 4 loaves of each.
Once I can pick myself up off the floor.
These neighbors are gonna eat good.
Once I can pick myself up off the floor.
These neighbors are gonna eat good.
Don't laugh but, until just a few minutes ago, I never had a chance to eat any of our chickens' eggs.
I'd heard how good they were but...
Holee molee, these are the BEST eggs I've ever eaten in my life!!
Including from my flock 10y ago.
They're even a little sweet?! 🌱🥹
I'd heard how good they were but...
Holee molee, these are the BEST eggs I've ever eaten in my life!!
Including from my flock 10y ago.
They're even a little sweet?! 🌱🥹
December 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I am immediately IMMEDIATELY baking sweet braided bread. Takes 4 eggs per batch. Cardamon or lemon zest. Maybe I'll make 4 loaves of each.
Once I can pick myself up off the floor.
These neighbors are gonna eat good.
Once I can pick myself up off the floor.
These neighbors are gonna eat good.
Don't laugh but, until just a few minutes ago, I never had a chance to eat any of our chickens' eggs.
I'd heard how good they were but...
Holee molee, these are the BEST eggs I've ever eaten in my life!!
Including from my flock 10y ago.
They're even a little sweet?! 🌱🥹
I'd heard how good they were but...
Holee molee, these are the BEST eggs I've ever eaten in my life!!
Including from my flock 10y ago.
They're even a little sweet?! 🌱🥹
December 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Don't laugh but, until just a few minutes ago, I never had a chance to eat any of our chickens' eggs.
I'd heard how good they were but...
Holee molee, these are the BEST eggs I've ever eaten in my life!!
Including from my flock 10y ago.
They're even a little sweet?! 🌱🥹
I'd heard how good they were but...
Holee molee, these are the BEST eggs I've ever eaten in my life!!
Including from my flock 10y ago.
They're even a little sweet?! 🌱🥹
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Ran out to get my quesabirria tacos…
Kept #Rudolph playing on my phone. Grown Black man with a full beard heard Clarice singing “There’s always tomorrow” his face lit up.
“That’s a classic.”🥰
What I love most about Christmas, the inner child is strong this time of year. Even with a whole beard🤣🤣🤣
Kept #Rudolph playing on my phone. Grown Black man with a full beard heard Clarice singing “There’s always tomorrow” his face lit up.
“That’s a classic.”🥰
What I love most about Christmas, the inner child is strong this time of year. Even with a whole beard🤣🤣🤣
December 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Ran out to get my quesabirria tacos…
Kept #Rudolph playing on my phone. Grown Black man with a full beard heard Clarice singing “There’s always tomorrow” his face lit up.
“That’s a classic.”🥰
What I love most about Christmas, the inner child is strong this time of year. Even with a whole beard🤣🤣🤣
Kept #Rudolph playing on my phone. Grown Black man with a full beard heard Clarice singing “There’s always tomorrow” his face lit up.
“That’s a classic.”🥰
What I love most about Christmas, the inner child is strong this time of year. Even with a whole beard🤣🤣🤣
What I find interesting is how one potential buyer is spoken about in terms of a specific person/persons/family while the buyer is spoken about by its brand.
Why is that? How did we get here?
Why is that? How did we get here?
I am not really “here” as I am hella busy right now with SCAD crap (yes even during break) but Netflix buying Warner Bros. is actually insane.
Better than Paramount given how much they openly wanna back our oligarchs I GUESS (???) but still none of this is remotely any good and good lord
Better than Paramount given how much they openly wanna back our oligarchs I GUESS (???) but still none of this is remotely any good and good lord
December 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
What I find interesting is how one potential buyer is spoken about in terms of a specific person/persons/family while the buyer is spoken about by its brand.
Why is that? How did we get here?
Why is that? How did we get here?
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Segregation in public accommodations was the major venue for protests during the Civil Rights Movement. Economists have not spent much time considering how discrimination in public accommodations affected economic activity. This is now a major focus of my work. 2/3 www.nber.org/system/files...
www.nber.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Segregation in public accommodations was the major venue for protests during the Civil Rights Movement. Economists have not spent much time considering how discrimination in public accommodations affected economic activity. This is now a major focus of my work. 2/3 www.nber.org/system/files...
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The Green Book Project catalogues this history of segregation in public accommodations, documenting local businesses that defied the norm of racial segregation. Explore the papers, methods, download data, and share your story 3/3 greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap
#EconSky
#EconSky
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The Green Book Project catalogues this history of segregation in public accommodations, documenting local businesses that defied the norm of racial segregation. Explore the papers, methods, download data, and share your story 3/3 greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap
#EconSky
#EconSky
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70 years ago today, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began. Days after Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955 for violating the ordinance requiring Black residents of Montgomery to accept second class treatment, the Black community organized and boycotted the city’s buses for over one year. 1/3
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
70 years ago today, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began. Days after Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955 for violating the ordinance requiring Black residents of Montgomery to accept second class treatment, the Black community organized and boycotted the city’s buses for over one year. 1/3
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aBOOSTING
Please help a lovely writer/ baby catcher/ all around cool person l.
Please help a lovely writer/ baby catcher/ all around cool person l.
I've managed to get this mini-goal down to $275.
Boosting my ko-fi post cause right now my choices are fundraise that amount OR choosing between rent and getting to work to tomorrow and through the weekend.
Boosting my ko-fi post cause right now my choices are fundraise that amount OR choosing between rent and getting to work to tomorrow and through the weekend.
I have a chance to pick up more work this week, but I'm still stuck in the trap of raising *JUST* enough to get to work and eat and sorta kinda scrape by on housing. If I met a mini-immediate goal of $350 I'd be able to commit to the extra work and cover all my baby-runs for through Sunday.
December 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
aBOOSTING
Please help a lovely writer/ baby catcher/ all around cool person l.
Please help a lovely writer/ baby catcher/ all around cool person l.
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It's my birthday everyone! To celebrate the fact I should not exist and yet I do I invoke the Bluesky right of art sharing!
Please share my work around and let it be known that I'll be available for work pretty much immediately in 2026. DMs and email are open!
Please share my work around and let it be known that I'll be available for work pretty much immediately in 2026. DMs and email are open!
December 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It's my birthday everyone! To celebrate the fact I should not exist and yet I do I invoke the Bluesky right of art sharing!
Please share my work around and let it be known that I'll be available for work pretty much immediately in 2026. DMs and email are open!
Please share my work around and let it be known that I'll be available for work pretty much immediately in 2026. DMs and email are open!
I heard that man apologized but he only asked forgiveness for possibly tarnishing himself in anyone's eyes 🥴
The purposeful disrespect and loud coverage speak to the success & impact of the anti-racist work going on in various communities right now.
The purposeful disrespect and loud coverage speak to the success & impact of the anti-racist work going on in various communities right now.
December 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I heard that man apologized but he only asked forgiveness for possibly tarnishing himself in anyone's eyes 🥴
The purposeful disrespect and loud coverage speak to the success & impact of the anti-racist work going on in various communities right now.
The purposeful disrespect and loud coverage speak to the success & impact of the anti-racist work going on in various communities right now.
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“For 5 weeks_ crab pickers fought to reinstate their pay. As they did, angry white mobs burned cars, invaded homes, & threatened_ union representatives. Labor organizers brought in groceries; white residents blocked them_hoping starvation wld bring them_to work.”
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
Black women crab pickers risked it all in 1938. Maryland finally recognizes them.
The Maryland Department of Transportation recently installed a historic marker on Route 413 in Crisfield to commemorate the 86th anniversary of a strike by about 600 workers — predominantly Black wome...
www.thebanner.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“For 5 weeks_ crab pickers fought to reinstate their pay. As they did, angry white mobs burned cars, invaded homes, & threatened_ union representatives. Labor organizers brought in groceries; white residents blocked them_hoping starvation wld bring them_to work.”
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
I am creating a spreadsheet manually of all of my 2024 Amazon purchases. That was the year I finally quit Prime (4Q2024) and Amazon shortly thereafter.
The frequency of purchases!!
The sketchy-looking totals 😮
I have unexpected feelings about these (and any Amazon) transactions.
The frequency of purchases!!
The sketchy-looking totals 😮
I have unexpected feelings about these (and any Amazon) transactions.
December 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I am creating a spreadsheet manually of all of my 2024 Amazon purchases. That was the year I finally quit Prime (4Q2024) and Amazon shortly thereafter.
The frequency of purchases!!
The sketchy-looking totals 😮
I have unexpected feelings about these (and any Amazon) transactions.
The frequency of purchases!!
The sketchy-looking totals 😮
I have unexpected feelings about these (and any Amazon) transactions.